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'Nurse sharks are clever, and are able to use their suction and flexible manoeuvres to get food out of tight places.

'The guide did not lock the bait box properly – twice – and proceeded to punish the sharks for their innate ability and natural reaction to accessible food on a shark-feeding dive.

'So basically, the shark feeder lost his temper with the nurse sharks and punched them because of his own mistake. If the nurse sharks had eaten all of the chum the reef sharks would have left the 'arena' and the show would have been over.

'Upon surfacing when the guide was questioned about his treatment of the sharks he responded 'Yeah, sometimes you just have to demand some F*ing respect'.'

The water teams with sharks and exotic fish in the Bahamas as a group of divers watch on

But two divers decide that it is time to leave and they move in to retrieve the box

Hungry fish: But the sharks are still hungry and one diver punches a shark repeatedly to try to wrestle the food box free from the determined frenzy of fish

Feeding frenzy: But the sharks still circle the food source - and the divers in the Bahamas

Man vs Shark: But the divers eventually get a grip on the box and drag it away from the fish

Feeding sharks is a controversial practice because it can reduce the predators' fear of humans and build an association for the sharks between humans and food